Courses
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First Semester Core: PROJECT
Mariana Ibanez, Kiel Moe, Cameron Wu, Megan Panzano, Nerea Calvillo
Project is the first core studio of the four-semester sequence of the MArch I program. With a multiplicity of references, Project may refer to fundamental…
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Third Semester Core: INTEGRATE
Eric Howeler, Maryann Thompson, Preston Scott Cohen, Jon Lott, Max Kuo, Iñaki Abalos
Integration is the agenda for the third semester architecture design studio. Architecture is fundamentally a part-to-whole problem, involving the complex integration of building components, systems…
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The Function of Time: Cultural Complex
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused at exploring the architectural potentials of time and uncertainty in large cultural complexes to…
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Architects’ Club : Clerkwell : London
As London has the world’s highest number of international working graduates in the field of architecture, there is need for an independent* club where they…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
If you are what you eat, this studio will investigate how and what we eat can be used as a catalyst to reconsider architecture and…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
This course considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature, and…
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Built Climates
The concept of \”Terroir\” (or \”Climates\” in Burgundy) is popular in France in the term of \”Produits du Terroir\”, which means wine, cheese or sausages…
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21st Century Architecture of Africa and the Diaspora
In the last 500 years, Europe and the West saw dramatic shifts in the nature and shape of their civilisations, from the Renaissance to the…
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Material Performance: Composite Morphology and Fibrous Tectonics
A new understanding of the material in architecture is beginning to arise. No longer are we bound to conceive of the digital realm as separated…
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City of Artificial Extrusions
The studio will investigate the urban model of the detached city through the design of a mixed-use, high-rise tower situated on a property around an…
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Housing in Extreme Environments
The extreme climatic conditions of the North introduce a design paradox for architects. The fragile environmental conditions require incisive designs that respond to irregular loading…
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Architecture of Cultural Prosthetics: Tools for Communication and Expression in the Public Space
Cultural:[1] Of or relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society. [2] Of or relating to the arts and to intellectual achievements.
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The Forms of Transition
This studio aims to develop, define and demonstrate possible projects for a hyper local scale under the scope and conditions of the architecture of transition.
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Basel Study Abroad Studio Option: Achtung: die Landschaft
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
In 1955 Max Frisch, Lucius Burckhardt und Markus Kutter published Achtung: Die Schweiz, a warning about the increasing sprawl throughout the Swiss landscape and a…
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Visual Studies
Schedule: The course will meet once as a group on the first class, 8:30 am on Tuesday, September 3rd, in room 111. The course…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…
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Digital Media I
This course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine the generative capacities of the…
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Digital Media II
This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and digital tools. The point of departure is…
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape
The supermarket shelf is a highly volatile, hyper-competitive space. On this shelf products struggle to maximize every possible advantage, all in a ruthless effort to…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
This seminar is intended to serve as an important research, discussion and presentation forum, information resource and a critical laboratory for further development of GSD\’s…
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Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Communicating Architecture: The Planner and Architect as Active Participant in Democratic Processes
Basel Studio Fall 2014 Seminar: Communicating Architecture/Lars Müller Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Communicating Architecture: The Planner and Architect as Active Participant in Democratic…
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Conservation of Older Buildings: Techniques and Technics
This course will teach the understanding of existing building form and fabric and how to conserve them. Where does one even start the evaluation process?…
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Culture, Conservation and Design
This proseminar addresses theoretical foundations of Critical Conservation as an evolving discipline that bridges between Cultural Meaning, Identity and Context. Its goal is to enable…
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Light Structure I
Lightness is an attribute that spans: structure, performance, materiality, assembly, and transportation; as well as, experiences and perceptions of a built environment. Based on its…
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Design for Learning
When Walter Gropius discussed the “training of an architect” he identified the very first years of formal education, Nurseries and Kindergartens. In truth, the early…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An aperture is commonly…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Islands
Either consciously deployed or a product of difference, the island was a recurring theme and metaphor. It can be identified either as the expression of…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hyperreality
Contemporary postmodern culture is dominated, according to French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard, by simulation and hyperreality. In postmodern culture the image has become the new…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III: Rethinking Architecture
This course in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture looks at several iconic buildings and architectural texts from the beginning of the twentieth century…
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals for…
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Istanbul: Urban History Research Seminar
Istanbul’s aggressive neo-liberal urban transformations since the mid 1990s has lent urgency to studies of urban history and collective memory. Supported by the Mellon Initiative…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
From National Romanticism in the late 19th century to Critical Regionalism debates in the 1980s, architecture’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or…
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“In the Manner of a Picture”: The Lure of the Picturesque
“Instead of trying to wrest order from chaos, the picturesque now is wrested from the homogenized, the singular liberated from the standardized.” —…
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Construction Lab
This course is an introduction to materials in both science and construction. The motivation is to equip the next generation of architects with the means…
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Energy in Architecture
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Structural Design 1
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
Mark Mulligan, Andreas Georgoulias
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check…
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Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)
Engineering Sciences 139. Catalog Number: 0994 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Explores…
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Water Engineering (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…
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Advanced Introduction to Robotics (at SEAS)
Also offered as Engineering Sciences 259 : Advanced Introduction to Robotics Exam group: 8 Please check the FAS schedule for room information.
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Computer Vision (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…
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Material Practice as Research: Digital Design and Fabrication
Leire Asensio Villoria, Carlos Felix Raspall Galli
The translation between the architectural design and the subsequent actualization process is mediated by various tools and techniques. Through the adoption in architectural design practice…
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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in the field. This…
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Expanded Mechanisms / Empirical Materialisms
Machines and material are vitally connected and reciprocally constrained. Each responds dynamically to the other through a range of geometric, chemical, and physical events that…
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High Performance Buildings and Systems Integration
The interrelationships of environmental control systems as they relate to high performance/well integrated buildings will be explored in details. The course will address the main…
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Design By Committee. Digital Interfaces for Collaborative and Participatory Design
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web based interfaces for collaborative and participatory design scenarios where…
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Energy Simulation for Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision making.
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